Q: What do TV news and Netflix have in common? A: They both appear on the same screen. They both tell stories. Q: What is the difference? A: TV News has critical information to deliver that is really important for people to know. Netflix doesn’t. Oh yeah, one other difference…

Living in both the US and the UK for the past seven years, I have had a good opportunity to compare the two medical systems. I can tell you, after all this time, that the NHS, Britain’s National Health Service is absolutely amazing. But the NHS is not without its…

After a year away from New York, we came back for a few days. I like a printed newspaper. I understand that this makes me old, but I am old. For the past 20 years that I lived in Midtown Manhattan, I was able to buy a hard copy of…

Tucker Carlson, until recently the host of Fox News’ most popular show, was unceremoniously fired this week. We don’t know why he was fired, but there is plenty of explanation in the mediaverse — most of it ascribing the firing to a direct order from Rupert Murdoch, annoyed because Carlson’s…

In 2022, the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma reached an agreement with attorneys to pay $6 billion to resolve claims that they had fueled the opioid epidemic in America by pushing their drug OxyContin onto the public. The family said, as part of the agreement, that they “sincerely regret”…

At the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute, Fox News settled their lawsuit with Dominion for a staggering $787.5 million. Rupert Murdoch had no choice but to settle, the evidence against Fox was overwhelming. Many of my liberal friends were deeply disappointed that the case did not go to trial. They…

My friend, the documentary filmmaker Mark Benjamin sent me a link to an article in IndieWire entitled “Martin Scorsese: ‘The Image on an iPhone Is the New Cinema Vérité’ Af first, I though the article was a reference to Scorsese using an iPhone to make a film, which is certainly…

Like a tornado barreling across the Texas landscape, AI, Artificial Intelligence is coming, and like a Texas tornado, it is going to destroy everything in its path. There are estimates that as many as 100 million people may lose their jobs, jobs that hitherto were not only secure, but jobs…

History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. -Karl Marx One hundred years ago, this year, 2,000 Nazis, then a relatively small and rather fringe political party in Weimar, German, marched on the government of Bavaria, one of the larger German states in an attempt…